by Gerardo Honty – On Friday, April 22 2016, the headquarters of the United Nations in New York received the representatives of the member states for the opening ceremony of the signing of the Paris Agreement. The ceremony was more symbolic than anything else, as it inaugurated the period of one year that the countries […]
by Gerardo Honty – By the end of 2015, the price of petroleum had fallen to values of the beginning of the century; after having reached a peak close to US$ 150 per barrel in 2008, the prognostics indicate that the prices will continue low in 2016, something that is difficult to explain in a […]
A review of some of the central ideas being discussed in a process of energy transitions towards Good Living for the Andean regions and the neighbouring Amazonian areas. It is an exercise in proposing post-carbon and post-extractivist societies based on sensibilities that seek to get out of the trap of conventional ideas of development, and […]
by Gerardo Honty – This Friday (December 11, 2015) marks the date for the agreement to put limits on climate change. But the second week of negotiations of the Paris summit on Climate Change (COP 21) began this Monday with little progress, as expected. In spite of the fact that the new draft proposed at […]
by Gerardo Honty – While climate change advances in accordance with the worst scenarios imagined by climatic science, the majority of Latin American countries sit and wait for “the others” to take care of the results of the COP21. The report recently published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (1) confirms the […]
The phenomenon of shale gas not only threatens the quality of water in local ecosystems, but is also a threat for climate change. In Latin America, a number of countries are moving towards the exploration and exploitation of these resources, especially in shale gas, without considering these threats. A summary of a recent book written […]
Proponents of the South American philosophy of Buen Vivir have proposed an action plan for moving towards a more sustainable, more balanced economy – report by Oliver Balch, The Guardina, 11 February 2015. Business, as a rule, doesn’t do utopia. The reason is simple: as the French author and philosopher Albert Camus put it, “utopia […]
by David Hill – After the collapse of a groundbreaking attempt to protect the Yasuni National Park, Chinese companies could be ready to drill for oil. The announcement by Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, that he has abandoned a ground-breaking scheme stopping oil operations in the Amazon has led to a wave of protests across the […]
The Latin American economy based on exploitation of natural resources does not create social well-being and is unsustainable in the context of climate change, says Uruguayan ecologist Eduardo Gudynas, lead researcher at the Latin American Centre for Social Ecology (CLAES). Interview by Milagros Salazar. Gudynas, who was in Lima to lead a workshop with the […]